153 Famous Quotes

“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“All good things must come to an end.” – Geoffrey Chaucer

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

“Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Søren Kierkegaard

“This above all: to thine own self be true.” – William Shakespeare

“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – Mark Twain

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bil Keane

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Teddy Roosevelt

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” – Alexander the Great

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” – Frank Sinatra

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison 

“Arguing with a fool proves there are two.” – Doris Smith

“Beggars can’t be choosers.” – John Heywood

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” – Voltaire

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.” – Voltaire

“I am, therefore I think.” – Ayn Rand

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” – Anne Frank

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Meade

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King

“Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.” – Thomas Howell

“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.” – George Eliot

“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” – Forrest Gump

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paolo Coelho

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin

“The more things change, the more they remain the same.” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” – Thomas Reid

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking

“It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” – Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

“He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” – Marilyn Monroe

“A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

“You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.” – Francois de Charette

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.” – George R. R. Martin

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

“There’s a sucker born every minute.” – P.T. Barnum

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

“Actions speak louder than words.” – Abraham Lincoln

“A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of the sheep.” – Lionel Messi

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

“May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” – Frederick Douglas

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath

“Familiarity breeds contempt.” – Geoffrey Chaucer

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christian Andersen

“Look before you leap.” – Charlotte Brontë

“A man is but what he knows.” – Sir Francis Bacon

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

“Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” – George Orwell

“We design our lives through the power of choices.” – Richard Bach

“All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.” – Edgar Allen Poe

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin

“All things come to those who wait.” – Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – Buddha

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” – Lucille Ball

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“Leave no stone unturned.” – Euripides

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

“Two heads are better than one.” – John Heywood

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol

“Two wrongs don’t make a right.” – Benjamin Rush

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Honesty is the best policy.” – Edwin Sandys

“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn

“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lorde

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.” – Frank Zappa

“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll

“Great minds think alike.” – Carl Theodor von Unlanski

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.” – Bertrand Russell

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” – Al Pacino, The Godfather Part II

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein

“A fool and his money are soon parted.” – Thomas Tusser

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

“The end doesn’t justify the means.” – Sergey Nechayev

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – John Dalberg-Acton

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” – Arthur Fletcher

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joe Kennedy

“All’s well that ends well.” – William Shakespeare

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“In order to write about life first you must live it.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” – Abraham Lincoln

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” – Bert Lance

“Whatever you do, do with all your might.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” – Buddha

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

“The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy

“All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendel Holmes

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.” – Alrded Lord Tennyson

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein

“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paolo Coelho